West Midlands

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The West Midlands Regional Final of the Spelling Bee competition will take place on 23rd March 2011. See below for the provisional programme.

This event is restricted to schools who have registered and participated in the Spelling Bee ONLY. If you would like to take part but have not registered, please contact us on routes@aston.ac.uk and we will try to accomodate you.

GOOD LUCK to all our spellers!

Following phase 1 of the Languages Work project, this two day residential held at Keele University is for Year 8 pupils and teachers. Pupils will have the chance to experience University life, attend workshops sampling different languages and spend time with current language undergraduates.

Teachers will be able to take part in a variety of training workshops and parents will be invited to attend a celebration evening meal at the end of the event.

For further information please contact us by email at routes@aston.ac.uk or by telephone on 0121 204 3872.

To take part in this activity you must have attended Phase 1. To book to take part please see the Phase 1 event information here.

A day for Year 9 pupils to take part in Chinese New Year themed activities.

This event is organised by Aston University Languages and Social Sciences Outreach team in conjunction with Routes into Languages. Please contact Gemma Pauley g.pauley@aston.ac.uk / 0121 204 3784 to find out more or to book.
 

Following the popularity of this conference last June, we are pleased to offer our "Languages in HE" Sixth Form conference again this year. It will take place on 9th February 2011 at Aston University 10am – 3.30pm with 100 places available.

The conference is organised by Routes into Languages West Midlands and the aim is to give Sixth Formers a flavour of the opportunities for language learning at HE available to them.

You will find attached below the programme. Students will have the chance to hear a presentation detailing the wide range of options for continuing with languages at university followed by a question and answer session with undergraduates studying at Routes into Languages West Midlands institutions.

For the rest of the day, students then have the freedom to choose which sessions they would like to attend based on their own studies and interests. The sessions will be delivered by staff from Routes into Languages West Midlands institutions in order to allow students to experience the diversity of different universities locally and to encourage them to research their options thoroughly before completing their UCAS forms. A buffet lunch will be provided during which time there will also be a mini HE Fair with representatives and undergraduates from Routes institutions available to offer advice, answer questions and distribute prospectuses.

Alongside the student sessions, Links into Languages will provide CPD training for teachers. The training is open to all language teachers and will focus on KS5. We are able to offer the course for free to teachers accompanying students and at a cost of £50 to those coming on their own.

If you would like to book to bring students to this event, please click Register for this event below. If you would like to attend the teacher training session but will not accompany pupils, please click here.

A day for Year 9 pupils to take part in German themed activities.

This event is organised by Aston University Languages and Social Sciences Outreach team in conjunction with Routes into Languages. Please contact Gemma Pauley g.pauley@aston.ac.uk / 0121 204 3784 to find out more or to book.

A day for Year 9 pupils to take part in Spanish themed activities.

This event is organised by Aston University Languages and Social Sciences Outreach team in conjunction with Routes into Languages. Please contact Gemma Pauley g.pauley@aston.ac.uk / 0121 204 3784 to find out more or to book.
 

A day for Year 9 pupils to take part in French themed activities.

This event is organised by Aston University Languages and Social Sciences Outreach team in conjunction with Routes into Languages. Please contact Gemma Pauley g.pauley@aston.ac.uk / 0121 204 3784 to find out more or to book.

This fun and interactive session for Year 8 pupils involves the use of both marketing and language skills as students are asked to develop an information booklet for F1 Racing teams which utilises the target language. This session is particularly attractive to boys and introduces a whole new aspect to language learning.

The aim of the session is to give pupils the confidence to use language skills in a marketing / sport environment, which also relies on their imagination and design skills.
 

This Japanese taster session for Year 7 and 8 pupils will focus on culture, food and language (including origami and calligraphy). Students will acquire basic language skills and an understanding of key elements of culture in a paractical and engaging way.